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patch: vanilla fglrx for 2.6.29

03-24-2009, 03:50 PM

Someone released a giant patch for fglrx that makes it compatible with 2.6.29.

Well, I really don't know how they do it, but for some reason their patches have so many offset errors and doesn't work out of the box. They even copied the kernel headers from their kernel and put them into the patch... WTF, hahahaha. So the Mandriva guys fixed it (thanks!) and i modified the patch to work stand alone - as in, you extract the fglrx .run file and do patch -p1 < ../patch.file.

Please, the next person who makes a patch... it would be really nice if you could explain to us how you always seem to have a different source than the rest of us as the patches never seem work the first time.

It's as if the patches are designed to infuriate users or try to spread FUD over fglrx. Whatever the deal, it works, so keep it up if that's your objective!